SENATE
                          NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Transportation & Homeland Security

TIME & DATE:  8:00AM, Wednesday, April 13, 2005

PLACE: E1.016

CHAIR: Senator Todd Staples

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To consider the following:


SB 24            Zaffirini
Relating to the creation of a donor education, awareness, and registry
program and the establishment of an organ donor and tissue council.

SB 153            Zaffirini
Relating to use of safety belts and child passenger safety seat
systems.

SB 433            Wentworth
Relating to the authorization of airport authorities and the
issuance of bonds and exercise of eminent domain by the
authorities.

SB 642            Lucio
Relating to offenses involving use of safety belts or a child
passenger safety seat.

SB 717            Eltife
Relating to the definition of all-terrain vehicle in the motor
vehicle registration law.

SB 737            Brimer
Relating to the prosecution of offenses involving the operating or
loading of an overweight vehicle in violation of certain laws.

SB 850            Shapleigh
Relating to an exemption from the required payment of a motor
vehicle registration renewal fee for certain military personnel.

SB 859            Ellis
Relating to a motor vehicle passing a bicyclist; providing
penalties.

SB 1336            Madla
Relating to the sale or conveyance of the Presidio International
Bridge.

SB 1397            Ogden
Relating to the imposition of a toll on a segment of highway for
which the Texas Department of Transportation has spent public
money.

SB 1624            Lindsay
Relating to the creation of freight rail districts; granting
authority to issue bonds or other similar obligations to create
public debt; granting the power of eminent domain.

SB 1670            Staples
Relating to a motor vehicle financial responsibility verification
program; providing a penalty.

SB 1706            Staples
Relating to the construction, acquisition, financing, maintenance,
management, operation, ownership, and control of transportation
facilities and the progress, improvement, policing, and safety of
transportation in this state.

SB 1712            Staples / et al.
Relating to the administration and use of the Texas rail relocation
and improvement fund and the issuance of obligations for financing
the relocation, construction, reconstruction, acquisition,
improvement, rehabilitation, and expansion of rail facilities.

SJR 41            Staples / et al.
Proposing a constitutional amendment creating the Texas rail
relocation and improvement fund and authorizing grants of money and
issuance of obligations for financing the relocation, construction,
reconstruction, acquisition, improvement, rehabilitation, and
expansion of rail facilities.

Pending Business:


SB 292            Carona
Relating to the fee for reinstatement or issuance of a driver's
license following a license suspension or denial for failure to
pass a test for intoxication.

SB 1073            Staples
Relating to the issuance of a temporary tag for use on an
unregistered motor vehicle.

SB 1251            Brimer
Relating to the acquisition, construction, maintenance, operation,
and provision of toll facilities and a transit system by a regional
mobility authority, and the transfer to a regional mobility
authority of the toll facilities, transit system, and related
assets of a regional tollway authority or transit provider or of
certain counties; providing criminal penalties; authorizing a tax.

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